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‘Hot Bench’ Relocates To Connecticut As LA Production Exodus Continues With No Respite For Unscripted Shows In Sight
'Hot Bench' is moving from California to Connecticut for Season 12 as LA production exodus continues with no respite for unscripted shows in sight.
“Given the industrywide economic challenges, we have made a budgetary decision to shift production of Hot Bench to Connecticut,” a CBS Media Ventures spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. Still not able to rival other states’ incentives, California’s tax credits will also continue to be out-of-reach for unscripted series (including syndicated shows), which will remain ineligible. The network films several of its reality series in the UK, including Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars, which moved from California to Grain Britain after Season 1.
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